Collaboration

Sophia Stel x Bang & Olufsen Vancouver

An album release, celebrated at home. Sophia Stel marked the greatest album of all time with a listening party at her loft in Gastown.

Guests dancing with their arms in the air at the listening party

Living-room speakers. A live-room night.

A DJ and mixer held one floor. Our job was to carry that sound, exactly as the room heard it, to a separate room upstairs.

Beolab 8 on a floor stand, beside the kitchen shelves

Beolab 28 against the wall in the hallway

Setting up in the loft, under a shirt that reads "I'm with Sophia Stel"

A member of the install team working along the baseboard

A singer with a microphone during the party

A guest photographing shirts hanging against a wall of posters

Built for the living room

Beolab 28 and Beolab 8 are made for the home. This time, the home was the venue: a hot DJ feed had to reach the speakers clean, and upstairs had to stay in step with the decks below.

A second mixer, a Core and a Halo

We surveyed the loft and mapped a route between floors. A concealed line ran along the baseboards and trim to a dedicated mixer, which kept the signal clear of clipping. Beosound Core fed the Beolab system upstairs, with the volume set by hand on Beoremote Halo.

A full house in Gastown

More than 100 guests came through the loft on Friday, October 23, 2026. We shot the night in night vision to match Sophia Stel's visual identity: grainy, intimate and unpolished, with the product inside the party, never in front of it.

Artist: Sophia Stel
Album: the greatest album of all time
Label: A24 Music
Engineering and install: Bang & Olufsen Vancouver
Project lead and content: Bang & Olufsen Scottsdale